Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Erwerbsarbeit, Einkommen und Geschlecht. Studien zum Schweizer Arbeitsmarkt

Das Ende der Normalarbeit: Mythos oder Wirklichkeit?

Haustierhalter leben gesünder

Niedriglohnbeschäftigung in Ost- und Westdeutschland

Lohn- und Gehaltsunterschiede zwischen Ost- und Westdeutschland - Implikationen für die Angleichung des Rentenrechts

Der Beitrag untersucht Stand und vergangene Dynamik des Prozesses der Lohn- und Gehaltskonvergenz zwischen Ost- und Westdeutschland auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) und der Linked-Employer-Employee Daten (LIAB) und fragt nach den damit einhergehenden Konsequenzen für die von der Bundesregierung geplante Angleichung des Rentenrechts zwischen Ost- und Westdeutschland. Den Kern der empirischen ...

Durch Wachstum zu Wohlbefinden: Der Einfluss der Wachstumsrate auf die Lebenszufriedenheit

The double role of ethnic heterogeneity in explaining welfare-state generosity

Based on theoretical models of budget-balanced social insurance and individual choice, we argue that in addition to the well-known empathy mechanism whereby ethnic heterogeneity undermines sentiments of solidarity among a citizenry to reduce welfare generosity, population heterogeneity affects the generosity of a polity’s social insurance programs through another distinct mechanism, political conflict. ...

Income Mobility

We survey the literature on income mobility, aiming to provide an integrated discussion of mobility within- and between-generations. We review mobility concepts, descriptive devices, measurement methods, data sources, and recent empirical evidence.

Estimating labour supply elasticities based on cross-country micro data: A bridge between micro and macro estimates?

The Nordic model relies on high tax rates to finance an extensive welfare state. If labour supply elasticities are large, the burden of financing the model can be large even if, arguably, the practice of providing subsidised goods that support labour supply is likely to mitigate these effects. We utilise repeated cross sections of micro data from several countries, including the four major Nordic countries, ...

Modelling the Joint Distribution of Income and Wealth

This paper considers a parametric model for the joint distribution of income and wealth. The model is used to analyze income and wealth inequality in five OECD countries using comparable household-level survey data. We focus on the dependence parameter between the two variables and study whether accounting for wealth and income jointly reveals a different pattern of social inequality than the traditional ...